#1 Sports injuries - model answer

Table-sports injuries!!

This table shows sporting injuries which led to emergency hospital treatment. Ten sports were looked at.

The sport with the highest number of injuries was Australian football with a number well over 10,000 second, and not so close in second position was soccer at around 3,777 injuries. Even thought Australian football was the first in the table, rugby still has a greater percentage of hospital admissions, which is the first in that category. Netball, hockey and rugby are the leading sports in percentage of injuries during competition or practice category at 95%.

Surprisingly enough, martial arts is at 8^th place in the list, with 882 as a number of injuries at around 2.1% and 5.6% hospital admissions, and hockey at 7^th, which is less than expected.

In conclusion, the main two sports that show up more than once on this table as highest are Australian football, because it has the highest number of injuries, and rugby because it has the highest percentage of hospital admissions.

Travel in Wales - Table practice writing

Gentlemen:

Check your blogs to this model essay:

Model Answer – Travel in Wales

This is a table which gives us information about different methods of travel in Wales in 1990 and 2005. Altogether, in 1990 people travelled 4,740 miles compared to 6,475 in 2005.

In 1990 cars were the most popular form of transport followed by local buses and trains. By 2005 cars were still the most important form, increasing from over 3,000,000 to just under 4,000,000 miles, but trains came next followed by local buses. Local buses were the only form of transport which actually dropped in numbers. Coach travel and taxis both had substantial increases with taxis tripling the miles traveled. Some forms of travel did not change much during the period under investigation, particularly walking and bicycle riding. For walking the figures were 255,000 and 258,000 miles respectively while bicycling increased from 51 to 52 thousand miles per year.

People travelled more in 2005 than they did in 1990, and they used all forms of transport more with the exception of local buses.

Reading Answers - Silk, and Dhows etc.

Gentlemen: Check the answers for your reading practice to see how you did from las week's ILP. We'll do more reading practice before the assessment on Tuesday, 22 Feb. Good luck!

READING ANSWER KEY – Silk etc.

Abu Dhabi Men’s College

1	T	19	I
2	T	20	C
3	T	21	E
4	T	22	B
5	F	23	G
6	F	24	D
7	A	25	C
8	B	26	D
9	C	27	D
10	A	28	B
11	C	29	D
12	B	30	C
13	The purpose	31	combination
14	Regional differences/evolution	32	passengers
15	Shu’ai	33	rival
16	Up to 400 tonnes	34	optimistic
17	sambuq	35	definite
18	Shu’ai	36	agreement

Blog tips for 175 - to get a good portfolio mark

Gentlemen:

Most of you have functioning blogs for 175 and have been posting your writings every week as is required for your portfolio grade. We will introduce bar chart writing this week - and the blog will be due on Sunday (or Thursday for the CJA's). Mohammed Al Hashemi you need to check your blog and send me the new URL this week, because I can't open your blog yet. This is important, send me the URL this week!

If you don't post your writing in the week we study that form/ style, then you miss the points for that writing for that week (10 points out of 50 for 1/2 your portfolio grade after the first Progress test).

Keep up your writing posts, the portfolio will be easier and you'll get full marks!

Gregory

Bar Charts - Top Date Producing Countries

Date producing countries in 2001 - Top 10 date-producing countries

The bar graph shows date production in tonnes for the world's top producers in 2001. Ten countries in the Gulf region and North Africa are featured.

First, Egypt was responsible for the lion's share of production, with over a million tonnes, but Iran was a close second, with almost 0.9 million. Following them came the UAE and Saudi Arabia, rivalling each other with about 740,000 tonnes each. Pakistan and Iraq, with outputs of approximately 630,000, were not far behind. The rest of the nations, however, were far less productive. Algeria supplied the world with nearly 400,000 tonnes and Oman around quarter of a million. In contrast, the harvests in Libya and Sudan were far less plentiful, yielding under 0.2 million each.

In summary, date production was most abundant in Egypt and Iran. In contrast, the countries with the smallest output were Libya and Sudan.

Pie Charts - Leisure spending in the UK - MODEL

Pie charts – Leisure Spending

The two pie charts show spending on leisure products comparing two age groups, above 50 and below 30 in the UK. As can be expected, overall sales of sporting equipment decreased with age, whereas, spending on gardening and reading materials increased.

The areas of greatest spending among the under 30 group were for books and electronics, with both groups spending approximately 40% of their budgets on electronic equipment. This compares with the over 50 group where books and electronic equipment also had a larger share of the leisure budget comprising over 60% of total expenditures.

Comparatively, both groups spent 16% of their free-time budgets on photography and other hobbies, but differed greatly regarding the money spent on gardening, with the older group spending over twice the amount for gardening items than the under 30 group.

In summary, leisure time expenditures by the two UK age groups showed remarkable similarities, except in the areas of sports, gardening and reading materials which showed the greatest change with age.

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Welcome to 175

Gentlemen:

I’m sure you had a good winter break and are ready to start a new term. In N175 we will continue to work on your basic English skills, as in 125, and will add in a speaking element, your personal interview.

We will use your Blogger sites every week to work on and correct your writing. Each week you will have a new writing assignment which you will upload to your Blogsite, as well as do corrections for each assignment. This means at least two posts for every week – which will also be graded as your writing portfolios, after each of the Progress tests. This will account for 10% of your overall grade. You will need to keep up every week, or your Blogs will be incomplete and be graded down.

The Progress test #1 will be in week #8, and will cover three types of graphs, and problem/ solution essays, so we have much to work on before week #8.

I’m sure you will enjoy the next term as much as I will!

Gregory